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4.5/5
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80%
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Something in the Air (2013) |
"
In creating a mashup of a Paris rocked by political storms and a young man in just as much turmoil, the director has given us a glimpse of an imperfect moment and an imperfect life in a slightly imperfect but wonderful film."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted May 3, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
75%
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Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
A lovely little lark with a good head on its shoulders."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted May 2, 2013
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2/5
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67%
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The Iceman (2013) |
"
"The Iceman's" problem rests instead with the script, which the director wrote with Morgan Land, his collaborator on the "Rx" screenplay. It never gets underneath Kuklinski's skin in a way that illuminates the psychosis."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 2, 2013
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|
4/5
|
98%
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Mud (2013) |
"
One of the most creatively rich and emotionally rewarding movies to come along this year."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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2/5
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
Like many big weddings - a lot of things go wrong and not much goes right."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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3/5
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46%
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Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
It makes for some stupid/slap-shtick fun of the Stooges variety -- that is, if Larry, Curly and Moe had been hunky gym rats engaged in illegal activity. "
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
2.5/5
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24%
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Arthur Newman (2013) |
"
The promise it begins with doesn't pay off. And while "Arthur Newman" is not a complete disaster, it does leave you wishing the romance and the ride had been a whole lot smoother."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
2/5
|
50%
|
Home Run (2013) |
"
Almost from the beginning the message overwhelms the medium."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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4/5
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
The final scene is so open-ended that like Germain, you won't want the story to end."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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2/5
|
——
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Pawn (2013) |
"
"Pawn's" cops and robbers game could have been far better played."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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4/5
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
There is no new ground, really, the distinction is in the way Malick covers it with glorious imagery, symphonies of sound, a cacophony of moods."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
3.5/5
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88%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
"The Angels' Share" leaves a warm glow."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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3/5
|
74%
|
Simon Killer (2013) |
"
It is brutally raw and difficult watching."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
"The Company You Keep" is a shrewder, more satisfying piece of filmmaking than we've seen from Redford in a while, though not quite in the league with his best behind-the-camera work ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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3/5
|
——
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Babe's and Ricky's Inn (2013) |
"
If you don't want to get up and move at some point during this film, go see a doctor."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
The movie is intimate in its telling, sweeping in its issues and stumbles only occasionally."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
Pick up the book. It does a far better job of breathing life into this monochromatic new world than the film."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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2/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
To borrow from Jack in the Box, "G. I. Joe: Retaliation" is one hot mess."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
Like the continents, it's a little too easy to drift away."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
A moody twist of hyper-violent vengeance and heartache where death is hand-delivered, mercy is hard to come by and love is never easy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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|
2/5
|
31%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
Regrettably, "Emperor" does not match MacArthur's vigor, or mine his legacy. Instead, the movie is Fellers' tale and dryly told."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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|
4/5
|
94%
|
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012) |
"
Though his work is dark, on camera at least, Crewdson is a delight."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Koch (2013) |
"
Though the film, more than two years in the making, was never intended as such, it plays like the kind of eulogy Koch would have approved - neither fawning nor eviscerating but always compelling."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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|
3/5
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
A bizarrely perverse, beautifully rendered mystery that you may or may not care to solve."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
Inescapable (2013) |
"
One hopes "Inescapable" is only a momentary stumble for this promising filmmaker."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
The dialogue is preachy, the drama too earnest and the action kind of sluggish, though it's hard not to get a jolt when Johnson jumps behind the wheel."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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|
4/5
|
100%
|
Tristana (1970) |
"
You can almost sense the director's pleasure in taking apart the duplicities of a patriarchal Spanish society, the long-standing sexual double standard for men and one young woman's revolt against convention."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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|
4/5
|
87%
|
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
Herzog has become a master of the understatement - knowing just how long the images can sustain you without a word being said."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma - three words not typically associated with teen romances."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
Long on beauty shots, short on depth and seriously intent on tugging your heartstrings. Indeed, it demands you reach for those tissues. Sob."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts (2013) |
"
Trials and tribulations in myriad forms are at the center of all five Oscar-nominated documentary short films this year."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Its stars, Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, steal so many laughs from such improbable places that the bumps in this revenge/road trip farce can be mostly forgiven, though not forgotten."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action (2013) |
"
If you're primed for the sudden shifts in tone, style, story and look, the payoff is one provocative and evocative film after another."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013) |
"
If you're primed for the sudden shifts in tone, style, story and look, the payoff is one provocative and evocative film after another."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
In doing a little genre bending of romantic schmaltz and horror cheese - some fundamental zombie mythology is turned on its head - the film breathes amusing new life into both."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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|
3/5
|
40%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
Screenwriter John J. McLaughlin has rendered a faithful adaptation of "Flashfire," one of the 24 novels filled with Parker's meticulous schemes and personal machinations."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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|
2/5
|
87%
|
Tabu (2012) |
"
The audience is left to imagine much of the story, though it is clear it involves love, betrayal, guilt, regret and a recurring crocodile."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
—
|
76%
|
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (2010) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
The metaphorical mother-child connection becomes a mystical horror show of significant power. Sadly it comes too late to save "Mama.""
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
Nothing clicks, nothing resonates, everything's broken."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
When the gun smoke clears, the body count is finished and the blood is mopped up, "Gangster Squad" is little more than another Hollywood wannabe overshadowed by the legacy of "L.A. Confidential"..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
In "Django," Tarantino is a man unchained, creating his most articulate, intriguing, provoking, appalling, hilarious, exhilarating, scathing and downright entertaining film yet."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 24, 2012
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|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
It is the kind of ode to the human spirit that you hope comes along, and not just during the holiday season."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
The film has as much to say about family dynamics as a couple's wavering love."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
The actor can do cool and calculating, it's the meaning behind it that never flickers to life. "Jack Reacher" plays like Cruise on cruise control."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
53%
|
The Girl (2013) |
"
There are moving moments as Cornish channels the slow self-enlightenment necessary for Ashley's character arc. And the actress is particularly good in the scenes with the promising young Hernandez."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
77%
|
Any Day Now (2012) |
"
Cumming is the linchpin, and the actor does an exceptional job of moving across the vast galaxy of universal emotions about partners and parenthood. He takes us to the heart of the matter in ways that matter most."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
37%
|
Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
Despite some predictable predicaments - and the inevitable Viagra joke - the film is clever in the way it deals with the high cost of mob connections and the even higher cost of old age."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
32%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
At times it is riveting stuff and at times ridiculous."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
47%
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